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For those not familiar with Facebook at Work, it is the version of Facebook that is designed for the work environment. Employees can use the platform to interact with colleagues, just like on a regular social network, but this time, the environment is geared for work or business. Well, Facebook at Work now has its own chat messaging platform, and it is called Work Chat.
No doubt, everybody is familiar with this scenario -- you are just about ready to go to sleep at 10-ish, but steal a quick glance at your smartphone while in bed, and then end up staying awake until 3 in the morning, still tapping those like buttons. Of course, mobile users are quick to blame their smartphones for their disrupted sleeping cycles, but it is most unfortunate that while just about everybody knows that smartphones do not help us get enough sleep, we still go on and browse our handsets in our pajamas.
Google is offering a mobile users a way in which they can still enjoy using mobile apps but without needing to download them on their mobile devices. So how does this work exactly? To illustrate, here is a scenario: If a mobile user searches for hotels with the use of Google’s mobile app on a smartphone running on the tech giant’s Android mobile operating system, he will basically be offered search results from various sources around the Internet. However, the user will also see information displayed from mobile apps such as Hotel Tonight, for instance.
With Project Astoria, Microsoft was planning to launch a new tool that would bring mobile apps originally developed for the Android environment into the company’s own Windows 10 operating system. The tool was specifically designed to urge mobile app developers to essentially make their Android apps into Windows friendly apps.
This week, United States senators and House representatives are pressuring Congress to move along with certain bills that would limit GPS tracking and smartphone surveillance after the Supreme Court opted to refuse hearing a cell phone case a few days ago.
Qualcomm first introduced its latest Snapdragon 820 processor during the Mobile World Congress 2015 back in March early this year in the city of Barcelona, Spain. Eight months later, the world’s foremost manufacturer of chips for mobile devices took the opportunity to demo its newest Snapdragon processor during a press event held in New York City.
The third biggest wireless carrier in the United States just announced during its Uncarrier X event held in Los Angeles, California that it will be giving its customers twice the data at no additional fees whatsoever. This means that subscribers who availed of T-Mobile plans that previously offered 1 gigabyte, 3 gigabytes, or 5 gigabytes of high speed data, now get 2 gigabytes, 6 gigabytes, or 10 gigabytes of high speed data, respectively.
Federal judge Richard Leon of the United States District Court has ruled against the National Security Agency’s (NSA) collecting of phone records. While advocates of civil liberties may consider this ruling a victory, its full impact is not clear yet because the NSA’s program is expected to undergo significant changes by the end of November this year.
Every wireless carrier out there likes to promote their deals because obviously, they want mobile users to go for their services and one up the competition. But if customers look hard enough, they can actually spot some hidden smartphone deals that are actually pretty good and are ripe for the picking. Where can one find these deals? Here’s a primer.
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